(BBC) Critically ill casualties were “waiting for hours” to be taken to hospital in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena attack, an inquiry has heard.
Senior paramedic Joanne Hedges was one of the triage officers overseeing patients who were being treated on the concourse of Victoria station nearby.
She arrived at the arena 40 minutes after the blast which killed 22 people.
Ms Hedges told the inquiry she had been informed the foyer, where the bomb exploded, was a restricted “hot zone.”
“We were told not to go upstairs [to the Arena foyer] and wait for patients to be brought down,” she said.
